Sincere thanks to the FFXI Team.

[Stompa]

I just want to say a heartfelt thankyou to all FFXI Staff, Dev Teams, past and present.

I want you to know that I really appreciate how hard you have worked to keep this amazing game relevant and novel, through so many years.

When the news conference was held a while ago, and it looked like FFXI was maybe going to be shut down, I actually cried. I love FFXI, and the thought of not being able to visit Vana'diel anymore, was such a horrible feeling. I was so happy when you later announced that FFXI will be around for years to come.

I don't even call FFXI a MMORPG, this game is so groundbreaking and genre-defying. FFXI is utterly unique in the history of computergaming. Yes, it has elements of older games, but FFXI is a truly unique game, it is a masterpiece, a priceless work of art. It may be old, but it is also timeless.

I greatly admire most of the countless new improvements that the FFXI Team have made to FFXI.

Here is my list of favourites, not in any particular order ;

1) /Lockstyleset.
2) Increased base movement speed.
3) Mog garden.
4) Rhapsodies of Vana'diel.
5) Trusts.
6) Displaying bonus effects on food icons.
7) Homepoint / book warps.
8) Hard Mode Mission Battles.
9) Multiple Linkshells, and LS window options.
10) Allowing Macro Use from items in Mog Wardobes.
11) Unity Wanted Battles.
12) Copper Vouchers. (<3)
13) Records of Eminence ; a fun and useful quest system for beginners, returning players, and veterans alike!
14) Goblin Box Special Dial, GBSP Keys.
15) Log-in Campaigns.
16) The "Raise" hat from seasonal event.
17) Jobpoints, Gifts, Jobmaster.
18) The Auction House, viewing Current Sale Price / Quantity on sale.
19) Fishing quests, glowy rods, new fish.
20) Multistorey Moghouses, patio.
21) Vana'clock, Timepiece, other stylish new furnishings.
22) Warp rings.
23) Adding "Mounts" to MiniMenu. Being able to Call my slow green chocobo from the MiniMenu.
24) Chacharoon Trust, his funny battle animations. I feel that he is secretly the most powerful Trust in the game, but he's too shy to show it.
25) Being able to buy essential basic Meds from the Curio Moogle. Convenient and useful!
26) We finally got a Cardian Trust, and he is LFP too, lol.


I have a terrible memory, but there are hundreds of awesome new features that the FFXI Team have added in recent years. Those were just the first 26 that I could think of.

I want to say again, thankyou to everyone who is currently working on FFXI, or has worked on it in the past. The game you created is still the greatest computergame of all time, and a source of endless joy to so many people around the world.

I was born with a crippling illness, which has made me ever more disabled in recent years. During my worst moments, FFXI has always been there for me, whenever I return from hospital, the first thing I do is login and see my Tarutaru and my Automaton. It makes me feel that life continues, it is my solace and source of smiles.

I am so happy that I can still login to Vana'diel, for such a reasonable monthly fee. I am so thankful to the FFXI Team for all their efforts, to add novelty and cool features to FFXI, the best computergame I have ever played by far, no doubts about it. Many players are not taking for granted the continued availability of this game, or the FFXI Team's efforts, or the new features and improvements they have made.

My sincere thanks, from a very happy customer.

:)

[Immortta]

I agree but this announcement today is the start of something I never wanted for this game... Stompa you have to admit it opens the door for damage to the game we love.

[Fae]

Thanks for posting this Stompa :)

Also at least for MMO I played that were subscription models, most companies went with the cruddy model of your monthly fee doesn't pay for new content, it pays for maintenance, legal fees, moderators/GM's, phone and email support, server costs and bandwidth and business expenses overall and new content and features only came out in overpriced expansions. I'm glad SE gives us much more than just maintenance for our monthly subscription, and personally while I know f2p mmo's make a lot more money off a smaller player base, I don't like what f2p does to communities of players. New players always come in, only to leave, usually asking for lots of help before they go. It always baffles me how people will be upset over a small monthly fee and then also be the ones with $3k steam accounts and $700 in League of Legends skins, or plop down $60 for a single player game they get maybe 40 hours out of, just doesn't compute to me.

[mekia]

I agree but this announcement today is the start of something I never wanted for this game... Stompa you have to admit it opens the door for damage to the game we love.

Seriously can't you people just stop being so damn salty? This is a thread about just enjoying the game and something positive. And the first person that comes a long tries to ruin it. I mean cmon really?

[CrAZYVIC]

I understand you have a lot of good feelings for this game. This game gave to me friends i know since 2010 and we still run FFXI events now, i spent many hours of my life enjoying this game and of course i love FFXI

But Sometimes when the company make mistakes its necessary tell they STOP RIGHT THERE.

When your child do something mean. You need educate him, not give him a huge present. If you keep giving presents, good cheers, friendly treat the child will be a mean adult.

FFXI have what? 50 - 75k players atm?. Make happy those low amount of players

1.- Put balance on your jobs.
2.- Add more inventory space free.
3.- Keep making NM battles just recycle the content NP
4.- Try make an auto party finder to help your playerbase make more simple their life
5.- Keep doing campaings like Void watch one etc
6.- Fix the trust AI allow we can customice them


People will be happy with you and your game. Dont do stuff piss your 50k players left!.

Also stompa i respect your post and your feelings about the game but in the life there are "moments" to say the things. Atm its not a good moment. If you could make this post after 5 JUly probably and not problem. The forums are too sensitive now.

I dont give a F..... about the wardrobe but i understand the playerbase is not happy with this change.

[Stompa]

:)

I thankyou for your replies to my post. I am trying to be non-partisan about the current Wardrobageddon situation.

These Forums are for everyone to share their views, if they like certain new developments or not. It is healthy that we express our opinions in an open and honest way.

My post was about something else, the feelings of heartbreak I experienced a while ago when it seemed that they were announcing the end. I remember my thoughts at the time ; "Noooooooooo! I would do anything to keep Vana'diel online!" Most other fans were equally upset and worried.

So my post here today, was to say thankyou to the FFXI Team, for all the wonderful new features they have added in recent years, and also I wanted to celebrate the fact that we seem to have averted the looming apocalypse. This is even more important to me than this current War-Drobes crisis!

[xiozen]

Stompa thank you for Thanking the FFXI team... for all of your well stated reasons...

I too remember as you very eloquently stated:


I remember my thoughts at the time ; "Noooooooooo! I would do anything to keep Vana'diel online!" Most other fans were equally upset and worried. So my post here today, was to say thankyou to the FFXI Team, for all the wonderful new features they have added in recent years, and also I wanted to celebrate the fact that we seem to have averted the looming apocalypse, at least for a while. This is even more important to me than this current War-Drobes crisis!

People, in general, seem to have short memories when they become angry about a given situation; we tend to forget (for example) that when FFXI stopped service on the 360/PS2, this also meant subscriptions which existed based solely on those systems also stopped; which meant that money needed to be replaced with "something"... this could have gone a number of different ways... such as sub rate increase by $1 per account; instead it became something based on choice...it's optional.

So again, I welcome the opportunity that is presented here... the ability to continue to play a game I love and that is not being shut down simply because as a business they are attempting to find reasonable ways in which to continue to operate--and ultimately they are doing this for us. Yes, they need to be paid like anyone else "ya gotta eat"... but also this game is for us... let's not forget that...and we need to be respectful in our responses... but like I said...people, in general, seem to have short memories.

/bow

[Castanica]

I agree but this announcement today is the start of something I never wanted for this game... Stompa you have to admit it opens the door for damage to the game we love.

Not long ago we were all worried the game was about ready to shut down completely and we were looking for a new mmo, now they look for ways to make it more profitable to give it a stronger future and you rage about it? Maybe you would prefer it to close instead?

Let me throw a fact at you, this game will never get more players than it already has and as such this game is on a steady decline of profitability. The only way to make this game profitable and worth bothering with is to make more money from the players it has from optionals, that's not nice to hear but its a fact. If this game can't pay it's way it will close and the money and developers will be put 100% into ffxiv.

When you're in a position of power you can make demands and stamp the floor, when you're in a position of weakness...not so much. Keep in mind that the developers of FFXI have one master, the people who control the budget. If they can't impress them, this game will be pinned to the wall of history.

This is a completely reasonable and unpunishing way to try and increase the profitability of the game, the entitlement from people who will cry a river if they announce closure baffles me.

[OmnysValefor]

Where are you seeing an indication of a stronger future? Is it in the job balance? Is it in the exciting new content?

[Castanica]

Where are you seeing an indication of a stronger future? Is it in the job balance? Is it in the exciting new content?

In the game getting any updates at all, which indicates they still have a dev team. Not long ago didn't we all think (and they implied) the game was fully cooked and would get no more updates at all? As in ZERO. What we are getting now is far more than we all assumed a few months ago.

I know you do Ambuscade, that's new isn't it?


Gamer Escape: How did development for the game shift after coming to the conclusion that the game would be receiving its last major update? Were there things you had originally planned to do that had to be cut?

Akihiko Matsui: I feel like this was the case for most current players of the game, but it was a huge shock for us, the development team, as well. That said, it didn’t take us much time to shift gears towards giving it our all for Rhapsodies of Vana’diel. I’m going to refrain from commenting on the specifics, but we did rework our plans from the perspective of what needed to be prioritized while developing Rhapsodies of Vana’diel in a limited amount of time.

Gamer Escape: With the game receiving its last major update, how will the subscription model change?

Akihiko Matsui: Currently, there are no plans for changes. The idea is to keep the servers open as long as possible, so your understanding would be greatly appreciated.

[OmnysValefor]

Merely being new is no indication of anything. Ambuscade is quite possibly the most disappointing battle-content I've ever experienced.

[Castanica]

Merely being new is no indication of anything. Ambuscade is quite possibly the most disappointing battle-content I've ever experienced.

Do you even read their announcements? This is as good as it's going to get unless they can increase the games profitability. The cost of that $12 a month is worth far less than it was 10 years ago due to inflation and the game has far less players.

Incase you missed it here is your future under the current revenue the game brings in


As announced in March, we will continue minor version updates through and beyond April 2016. Each month we will bring you battlefields, Record of Eminence additions, balance adjustments, and bug fixes.

If this isn't good enough for you then why are you still playing? They have told you what content additions are going to be from here on out unless something changes in terms of profitability.

The only leeway the developers have to increase the size and quality of patches due to getting more devs and a bigger budget is by showing the suits it can make more money to be worth that. This game is not going to get more players, you either want it to remain as it is or have fewer and fewer devs each cycle.

End of the day I won't be getting this because I don't need it, but I applaud anyone that does because they are putting money into the game I want to keep playing.

[OmnysValefor]

As a multi-faceted company, there is zero indication that the money being paid through XI is going towards XI. After all, money being paid towards various SE products went towards FF14 1.0 and 2.0. Hotels with bars don't say "This money was paid for drinks, only the bar can spend it."

I know they're running with a much smaller team now but there are a lot of ways to make more appealing content or at least content that doesn't feel it's meant to be spammed until you just can't stand to do it anymore. Considering the +1 body is 14.5k points and you get 2 seals a month, that's a minimum of 44 (?) VD Regualar Ambuscade runs. Whether those kills take your 3 minutes or 20 doesn't change the fun factor.

[Castanica]

Oh I'm well aware that there is no guarantee that extra revenue is going to go into XI but without that extra revenue there is no chance at all of anything getting better is there? It's a small chance over none.

It's either you accept extra optional charges or the games profits drop month on month, until it gets to a point where they have no devs at all. The content the game gets is based purely on the size of the dev team. This game isn't kept running because they love you, it's kept running to make a profit. I hope they add more optionals, I've wanted name / character / race changes for years.

Sometimes you just have to face reality, I would of been against this years ago but in the current state of the game and uncertainty of it's future I'm far more open towards it. Maybe this is because I've played so many other titles and seem some close down.

[Cesil]

Sadly that's true, we have no idea where the money is going to. After all, I just came back to ffxi cuz I got sick of xiv and I can tell you, for how "popular" xiv claims to be they don't seem to be spending many resources on it at all. So just cuz a game brings in money doesn't mean they invest in it..I wish they did but it sure don't seem that way :(

[xiozen]

As a multi-faceted company, there is zero indication that the money being paid through XI is going towards XI. After all, money being paid towards various SE products went towards FF14 1.0 and 2.0. Hotels with bars don't say "This money was paid for drinks, only the bar can spend it."

Honestly, I fail to see the relevancy here...this same exact argument can be applied to any business anywhere in the world looking to break even... So come again???


I know they're running with a much smaller team now but there are a lot of ways to make more appealing content or at least content that doesn't feel it's meant to be spammed until you just can't stand to do it anymore. Considering the +1 body is 14.5k points and you get 2 seals a month, that's a minimum of 44 (?) VD Regualar Ambuscade runs. Whether those kills take your 3 minutes or 20 doesn't change the fun factor.

Okay you acknowledge that they're running a "smaller team now"... then you state "there are a lot of ways to make more appealing content..." Perhaps if you'll provide some insight into the number of ways in which to make content more appealing for the Devs while realistically taking into account the resources, staff (smaller team), budget, current game assets and obvious (PS2 system) limitations which appear to be in the way... I'm more than certain they'll take your "a lot of ways to make more appealing content" into consideration.

If you cannot... then just preface it all to say, this is solely my opinion, I'm frustrated as hell and wanna vent... post...then everything could be forgiven.

[OmnysValefor]

I have before but I'll bring it to this thread here.

- Introduce all the fights at once so that there's some choice so that's not the same fight again and again.
- Attach it to the old fights like HTBFs, or BCNMs that sit empty most of the time.
- Allow us to farm multiple key items at once rather than just 1 and 2 (and most groups stick to just 2), or get rid of KI farming altogether. Instead, make it a daily quest only and much larger reward for participation.
- Make a gauntlet event so the quest becomes as many as you can kill in a half-hour rather than "How little of the half hour do you need".

I've been in several groups where the Antlions are doing in under 4 minutes on VD. The best group was under 2.5. Literally, The KI takes longer to farm than the kill.

[ScreamingInDigital]

How disappointing that a thread that started with such a positive note was so swiftly descended upon by people looking to hijack and derail it.

OP, your post is awesome, and a great reminder of what kept me playing XI for so many years, and of what always keeps me coming back. I'm sure the FFXI devs appreciate the sentiments.

Thanks for sharing some positivity!

[OmnysValefor]

Stompa regularly makes appreciative threads, and good for her, I'm glad she enjoys the game but she'll be the first to say she enjoys the game for very different reasons than a lot of players. She says she's dropped all of her ilvl gear and refuses to upgrade her weapons because it makes the old game world feel like paper (and it certainly does, old-world things that I used to be worried about tanking on PLD, I'll "tank" on SCH). She's not interfering with anyone else, so more power to her.

One thing Stompa does share in common with a lot of players is that much of her joy in the game world is based upon good times she had because this was once an incredible game and still can be but as another poster pointed out.. the day of such a divisive announcement is probably not the day to post yet another thread praising the devs without expecting some dissenting feedback.

[Hyrist]

It is nice to see an itemized list of some of the improvements made over time, and they are rather substantial to one that has taken a lengthy break from the game before now. Obviously no game will ever be perfect and there are improvements that can always be done. But at this point, I'd say they can rest on the additional content and focus more on balance adjustments and minor system improvements. There's a lot for players to catch up on as it is. And players are this point are mainly sticking around to cross off that bucket lists.

[OmnysValefor]

Hey, if you want to provide feedback without discussion, there's always email.

When someone has something critical to say and others disagree, noone says they can't disagree with OP.

[Stompa]

Stompa regularly makes appreciative threads, and good for her, I'm glad she enjoys the game but she'll be the first to say she enjoys the game for very different reasons than a lot of players. She says she's dropped all of her ilvl gear and refuses to upgrade her weapons because it makes the old game world feel like paper (and it certainly does, old-world things that I used to be worried about tanking on PLD, I'll "tank" on SCH). She's not interfering with anyone else, so more power to her.

One thing Stompa does share in common with a lot of players is that much of her joy in the game world is based upon good times she had because this was once an incredible game and still can be but as another poster pointed out.. the day of such a divisive announcement is probably not the day to post yet another thread praising the devs without expecting some dissenting feedback.


Thankyou for your replies. I will respond using paraphrased quotes, as I'm sleepy.


Re; "this is a Public Forum, not an email," [from your other post.]

You are totally correct, and I expect and hope for replies from anyone who wants to comment, regardless of their views.

Re; "She has tossed her ilvl gear."

I tossed about fifteen full armor sets and a load of weapons. But I still have main working ilvl sets on my Mule#1, she is Jobmaster / Procmaster ( :P ) WAR and has a load of utility ilvl gear, for helping my friends and LS, if they need me for something. It would be selfish if I just tossed everything, as there are people who depend on me. But I did toss most of my ilvl, for the reasons stated, it makes the old areas feel toothless.

Re; "She plays because of the memories of the old game."

I play because I love Vana'diel, the actual visual world itself. I play because I love the FFXI game engine, Menu System, Macro System, Battle Dynamics, the medieval appearance of gear, fishing, friendship, Automaton, etc. It is not really nostalgia for the old game, although I accept there is that too.

Re; "it is a sensitive time, people are upset about Wardrobes, its the wrong time to post your Happy Feels threads."

This is actually why I'm posting my Happy Feels thread. It is a sensitive time, and my sensitive feelings were dented by the negativity in the wardrobes thread. When I see negativity take wing, I am far more likely to post my Happy Feels, it is my defence mechanism!

All the stuff about "I'm quitting in protest!" and "it is a conspiracy ; first the wardrobes, then Cash Shop, then work-camps and chemtrails!"

I don't see SE as a predatory mercenary organisation, more like any normal business. I don't see a creeping totalitarianism, or a covert slide to a more mercenary business model.

As other posters said in the Wardrobes thread, FFXI is a different game to FFXIV, what works in FFXIV could prove to be disastrous in FFXI, because of the different expectations of the players. Also FFXI has been around for such a long time, people spent 8 whole years building a Mythic, this is different to FFXIV where you have not spent 8 years doing anything. As a company, SE have to respect the feelings of people who built RME for many years, and the way to do that is to not start selling them in Cash Shops. The same goes for HQ armors etc.

Also FFXI has always prided itself on quest-based progress, so for example we were not given the option of buying our personal chocobos in a Cash Shop, we were offered a lengthy, and very beautiful, quest line to raise our own chocobos. This is a good example of FFXI core values, they offer you a nice thing, personal chocobo, and they offer a very cute and long-term quest line to obtain the nice thing. FFXI quest-based progress is incredibly popular with FFXI players, and is the very opposite of Cash Shops, which is why I don't see Cash Shops appearing in future.

The extra Wardrobes are, as far as I can tell, intended to HELP the player, by allowing you to cancel several of your storage mules, and consolidate your excess gear on your main account. Cancelling those mules will save a small subscription sum, which would pay for the extra wardrobes. That is why my Happy Feels took a dent when posts started appearing about how terrible it all is, and how it is a diabolical capitalist conspiracy. It was actually supposed to help people!

:)

[Stompa]

How disappointing that a thread that started with such a positive note was so swiftly descended upon by people looking to hijack and derail it.

OP, your post is awesome, and a great reminder of what kept me playing XI for so many years, and of what always keeps me coming back. I'm sure the FFXI devs appreciate the sentiments.

Thanks for sharing some positivity!

Thankyou for your kind words! We are all united by our love for FFXI, and this includes the FFXI Dev Team who are all huge fans of the game too. We are fortunate in many ways, and it is important to never forget that.

:)

[Stompa]

Thanks for posting this Stompa :)

Also at least for MMO I played that were subscription models, most companies went with the cruddy model of your monthly fee doesn't pay for new content, it pays for maintenance, legal fees, moderators/GM's, phone and email support, server costs and bandwidth and business expenses overall and new content and features only came out in overpriced expansions. I'm glad SE gives us much more than just maintenance for our monthly subscription, and personally while I know f2p mmo's make a lot more money off a smaller player base, I don't like what f2p does to communities of players. New players always come in, only to leave, usually asking for lots of help before they go. It always baffles me how people will be upset over a small monthly fee and then also be the ones with $3k steam accounts and $700 in League of Legends skins, or plop down $60 for a single player game they get maybe 40 hours out of, just doesn't compute to me.

Thankyou for replying.

I totally agree with you, the FFXI Subscription is a unique model, for a truly unique game.

This is why comparisons to other games always seems so hollow to me. Other games are not worthy to shine FFXI's pointy boots. They are worlds apart, so why should we compare subscription models, when we are talking about two completely different phenomena.

:)

[Stompa]

It is nice to see an itemized list of some of the improvements made over time, and they are rather substantial to one that has taken a lengthy break from the game before now. Obviously no game will ever be perfect and there are improvements that can always be done. But at this point, I'd say they can rest on the additional content and focus more on balance adjustments and minor system improvements. There's a lot for players to catch up on as it is. And players are this point are mainly sticking around to cross off that bucket lists.

Thankyou for your reply. :)

This is why I tried to post a short itemised list, from my not-very-good memory.

We have had a plethora of new features and tweaks, almost non-stop for a long time, it is hard to keep track of all the new features! Many of these new features were added as a direct result of SE listening to people on this Forum, and then implementing an official version of the players' suggestions. And they have added a lot of cool stuff that we did not suggest, too.

The truth is that SE have added so many things to help new / returning players ease back into the game, RoE is central to this, but it is really incredible how much easier it is to start playing FFXI today, as a total newcomer, than it was a few years ago. I think this is actually SE's greatest achievement, making the game easier to start for new players, something that the original game lacked somewhat.

[mekia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARghlVjBab0

Are you the WHM in this story :p?

[OmnysValefor]

I have always always loved that video.

[OmnysValefor]

I haven't been rude to Stompa or anyone else, I merely replied to other people's posts in the thread.

This is an open discussion forum, so no 'authority' or 'right' is needed.

I'm sorry (to Stompa) but praise to the development team amidst such a divisive decision is challenging dissent. You don't have to agree, that's part of what make these discussion forums.

Edit: Stompa and I have chatted (over these forums) many times and sometimes we agree and sometimes we do not. You seem to be taking more issue with my disagreement with her OP than she is.


Stompa (to me):

Re; "this is a Public Forum, not an email," [from your other post.]

You are totally correct, and I expect and hope for replies from anyone who wants to comment, regardless of their views.

Edit, again: And I also dislike it when people bring dead-horse topics to completely unrelated threads but this wasn't entirely unrelated and this is an active topic. There were a few mod posts yesterday but none in the Wardrobe thread (and none here). It's only my hope that we show a representation of the community opinion where they look.

[Hyrist]

I'm sorry (to Stompa) but praise to the development team amidst such a divisive decision is challenging dissent. You don't have to agree, that's part of what make these discussion forums.

No, again I'm going to snipe you on semantics again, sorry.

It's not so much challenging dissent as it is, in my view, challenging the hyperbole and vile commentary that hides under dissent.

Stompa did good here, especially on the timing. This thread is a reality check to those decrying "SE's done nothing for us!", to try to add false weight to the argument against the 'cash grab' the wardrobe's 3, and 4 is depicted as by the community, without even really acknowledging that they've gotten numbers 1 and 2 already at no additional cost, on top of Mog Safe 2, and Mog Case - just to list the one's that were added recently to my eyes.

When weighed against sheer number of storage additions we've received in the long history of this game - I have to wonder when is the time we start taking a look at the responsibility on the player's behalf of inventory management. At this point, I would say it's fair game on the Developers part to have such reactions be considered ungrateful - especially if they're hitting their financial limit.

I am, in fact, grateful for what has been done to this game, and what continues to be - and the timing of threads like these are actually impeccable when protest becomes hyperbolic as it often does. (And it has. It took no time at all for the snide bitter comments and the slippery slope arguments to crop up.)

My main issue with the situation was the complete lack of communication on SE's end about the inclusion of potential paid services. It's fair to say that this was a blindside to the community and that, to me, is more upsetting then the existence of a cash shop itself. For a company that's been taking an approach to value of communication, I believe it is fair criticism to say that a game with such a long standing reputation for not having optional paid services beyond server transfers, deserved much more notice that they were breaking this trend, than danging something that is a highly valued in front of the playerbase as the introductory item, with so much as a month's notice.

However, the argument against a cash shop can stand on its down. It doesn't need the level of negativity we're seeing on the boards, and threads like these are good reminders of the things we do have. I don't feel being critical of that is constructive at this time - as we're faced with the reality of paid services in FFXI. While outright protest and subscription loss can sometimes sway companies away from it, it's not universally effective. I believe it may be time to discuss what would be an appropriate paid service.

[Stompa]

I'm clicking LIKE on every post in the thread, because I think we should all be friends! :)

I was sad when the BST update made people unhappy and I'm sad when an optional storage system makes people unhappy. I like to see happy players, full stop.

But for my own part, the only time I've ever been unhappy with FFXI was when the Payment Problems were causing me to be unable to pay for the game using my valid Debit Card. I was so happy when they added Paypal as a payment option because it meant I could play the game again. So I am just happy when I am actually able to pay for FFXI, and login.

Again, I was saying thankyou to the FFXI Team, because I feel they are totally trying their best, and everybody likes to feel appreciated. I work in an office, and if a customer tells me they are happy with our products, that makes me really happy! Positive feedback means a lot, it can brighten somebody's day.

If you are a happy customer, it is important to let the world know that you are a happy customer, because it will encourage other people to become future customers. It is important to be truthful about why you are a happy customer, as well as to detail what you see as downsides to a product.

For me, I'm really super mega happy in Vana'diel, and since I can only speak for myself, it is hard for me to say that I'm not happy in FFXI. That doesn't mean that other people feel the same way, only that I don't speak on their behalf!

:)

[OmnysValefor]

Stompa. I'm really happy you enjoy FFXI so much.

As much as I enjoy it, you probably enjoy every single minute more than I ever have at my peak.